5 minutes to understand — The lifespan of a domain name

Domain name is the first link between the web user and your web­site. It is thanks to the domain name that you are found on the Inter­net, that you are vis­i­ble, that your iden­ti­ty is dis­played and that you devel­op your busi­ness on the net. It is a dig­i­tal asset of your busi­ness.

But you are not, strict­ly speak­ing, the own­er of a domain name, you sim­ply have a right to use it, which trans­lates into an annu­al fee that can be renewed indef­i­nite­ly or ter­mi­nat­ed in case of infringe­ment. As soon as you no longer pay the annu­al fee required to main­tain it, and there­fore its renew­al, the domain name will expire and fall back into the pub­lic domain.

How­ev­er, this dele­tion is not auto­mat­ic, because the day after its expiry peri­od, the domain name will go through 3 suc­ces­sive phas­es before falling back into the pub­lic domain.

Find in this “5 min­utes to under­stand – The lifes­pan of a domain name” doc­u­ment, the dif­fer­ent phas­es in the life of a domain name.

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